Timeline for Why don't more mathematicians improve Wikipedia articles?
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| May 23, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | ex0du5 | @András: Notice, I did not say that they could not be improved. That was not my point at all. I said that the barrier to improvement increases with every improvement. Do you think a high-school student could improve the entry on K-Theory? I think there are a number of high-school students who could have contributed originally to getting the Trigonometry entries edited. In the beginning, there were no entries on Trigonometry. Do you see how this can cause contribution rates to decrease over time, unrelated to anything to be worried about? | |
| May 22, 2013 at 21:34 | comment | added | András Salamon | I don't find this at all; the Wikipedia articles I look at daily (many of them in mathematics and technical subjects) could nearly all do with at least copy-editing or improvement of references. It takes about as long to fix a typo as it does to glance at the new mail in one's mailbox, and about as long to correct a sloppy reference as it does to read (but not contribute to) a soft question on MO with a dozen answers. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 15:17 | history | answered | ex0du5 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |